Agent No Longer Out of Sight- CIA officer in leak case attends event

[Rose Siding]

Agent No Longer Out of Sight
CIA officer in leak case attends event




Washington - CIA officer Valerie Plame stepped out of the shadows yesterday for the first time since two senior Bush administration officials allegedly blew her cover.

Her normally flamboyant husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, briefly choked up at a lunch in his honor, telling his wife of five years he would trade his recent notoriety "in a minute if I could give you back your anonymity."

Plame did not address the gathering, where Wilson was awarded a $10,000 "truth-telling" prize for his revelations about President George W. Bush's now discredited claim that Iraq was trying to buy uranium in Africa. The prize was given by a foundation affiliated with The Nation, a liberal weekly magazine.

She declined to be interviewed, but did acknowledge that the whole experience had been "surreal" for someone who had spent "her whole career trying to stay out of the limelight."

http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ny-usleak163496782oct16,0,1792381.story?coll=ny-health-headlines

[Catherine Vincent]

1. He was awarded?

The bushitters won't like that.

[Beetwasher]

2. When She Decides to Talk

This story is going to BLOW UP! She's a hot babe from what I hear. It will be hard to keep that from being a sensational event...

[Resistance Is Futile]

4. For gods' sake...

:eyes:

[Catherine Vincent]

19. I hear she looks like Ann Coulter....

[Resistance Is Futile]

3. Much ado about little

It certainly appears that Plame/Wilson isn't in all that much danger if she feels safe enough to appear at an announced event.

[Beetwasher]

5. That's a very uninformed statement

You obviously don't have a clue about what your talking about.
I guess you've never heard of security? You know, the President actually appears in public rather safely too...She was CIA after all. I'm sure she has plenty of friends who would gladly look out for her safety. Duh!

[Resistance Is Futile]

10. No comparison

Apples and oranges.

The President has an army of agents to ensure his security.

Plame/Wilson is not believed to have any official protection and a bunch of CIA people (n.b. who have no domestic police powers) will not be capable of the extensive security management conducted by the secret service.

Annoy enough slimeballs, or frame enough innocent people, (the CIA does both) and the kind of enemies one will attract will not be deterred by low-level security. A handful of agents with guns won't be much good if an attacker delivers a truck bomb large enough to destroy the entire building. The secret service can protect against this level of threat. Freelancing CIA people can't.

[bpilgrim]

14. who will hit her rove?

if he blew our wmd tracking operation then there aint enough agents to protect all the people they put at risk though i'm sure that is all just part of the neo-cons twisted plan as well...

they THRIVE on CHAOS and FEAR :nuke:

peace

[Beetwasher]

15. You are incredibly uninformed

Good lord, stop digging. You're arguments are baseless and silly. A truck bomb to destroy an entire building to take out Plame??? Yeesh. Get real. :eyes: They could do that to her wherever she is then, even at her own house. What should she do, go hide in a cave in the Himalayas. That argument is absurd. Do you think at all before you post?

Ever hear of Pinkerton?

[NNN0LHI]

6. Does Bush appear at announced events?

Maybe thats why he has security to protect him 24/7? Bet there was security at this event too. Are you suggesting she never leave her house or something to prove she may be in danger? Get real.

Don

[0007]

7. Could be a look a like decoy!

I don't think these folks are such dummies as are in the administration, do you?

[coralrf]

9. That is spin...

and you know it.

She is safe in the USA. And you know it.

This was in the USA. And you know it.

Stop this gooper shit.

[Resistance Is Futile]

11. The myth of borders

The magic invulerability field which surrounds the United States protects all Americans from terrorism and attack by organizations connected to Chimpy's business partners.

Riiight.

[bobthedrummer]

17. Don't be naive, this is the USA in a Crusade

and you know it!

[pansypoo53219]

13. if she was murdered the bushies sure would look good now wouldn't they

i bet the SS has some xtra duty right now.

[librechik]

16. Yes, to please the current admin, she should do the right thing

and kill herself since her identity is compromised--or be locked up forever.

WTF is she supposed to do now that SHE CAN NO LONGER BE ANONYMOUS!!!??

dematerialize?

[LibInternationalist]

18. the issue isn't HER safety

but that of the people (tens, hundreds, thousands?) who may have interacted with her in foreign and hostile countries in the course of her duties as a CIA officer -- she is not in much danger. they, and the national security of the US, may be

[RainDog]

8. She only agreed to attend

if she wouldn't be photographed.

If the repukes are trying to spin that she is to blame if she goes out in public after her cover is blown...well, uh, okay, I suppose that makes sense in Bush's Banana Republic.

I posted the link below last night in LBN, fwiw The washington post article also has a list of links relating to the Wilson/Plame story beside the article.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32462-2003Oct15.html

Paying Homage To Truth and Its Consequences

By Reilly Capps
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, October 16, 2003; Page C01

(Wilson receives Ridenhour award from Daniel Ellsberg)

...The awards are named for Ron Ridenhour, the soldier in Vietnam who exposed the 1968 My Lai massacre. After hearing the stories of soldiers mowing down civilians in a hamlet called "Pinkville," Ridenhour wrote a three-page letter to federal officials. An official probe got underway a year later, and war crimes charges were brought against 13 officers and enlisted men. Ridenhour went on to become an award-winning investigative reporter. In 1998, at the age of 52, he died of an apparent heart attack while playing handball.

In their remarks, Wilson and Ellsberg leveled blistering criticism at the Bush administration.

The decision to go to war, Wilson said, "ought to be based on a commonly accepted body of facts, and if the commonly accepted facts aren't based on facts at all, then we have poorly served our country and our men and women in uniform."

Thirty years after the Nixon administration, Ellsberg compared the Wilson scandal to the Nixon era. "I believe this situation is exactly parallel," Ellsberg said. "By trying to punish him and his wife, they're trying to intimidate those who might be thinking about coming forward."

Nixon administration operatives broke into the office of Ellsberg's psychiatrist looking for a way to discredit him, Ellsberg recalled.

"Hopefully the trajectory of this episode will end very similarly," he said, "with indictments, resignations."

[TacticalPeek]

20. "he died of an apparent heart attack"

Another one of those. Like Mark Fineman, LA times.

SEPTEMBER 23, 2003
'LA Times' Writer Fineman Dies in Baghdad
Plus Complete List of Journalist Deaths in Iraq

LOS ANGELES -- (AP) Mark Fineman, an award-winning correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, died Tuesday while on assignment in Iraq of an apparent heart attack. He was 51.

Fineman was waiting with a colleague in the offices of the Iraqi Governing Council for an interview when he complained of chest pains and collapsed, Times staffers in Baghdad said. He was taken to a hospital but doctors could not revive him.

Fineman, whose story about Iraq's new foreign investment policy appeared on the front page of Tuesday's Times, worked at the paper for 15 years.

more

Editor and Publisher

[pruner]

12. I'm sure she attended events before being outed…

it's just that nobody knew who she (really) was til now.